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Mandriva mirrors [solved]


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Hi all,

since my install is now how I would like it I have been trying to update. I can add and easily update the PLF medias.

 

I had trouble downloading the Official medias last night. I thought it might be my internet connection, so I left it. Tonight, still troubles downloading updates. So I removed the medias, readded the PLF medias with out trouble.

I cannot add the official medias. Is anyone else having trouble????

 

The message I get is:

 

Failure when adding medium

 

There was a problem adding medium:

Could not find a mirror from mirror list http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.$arch.lst

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There's a file in /var/urpmi I think it goes by the name mirrors.list or something. You can delete this, and then try to add mirrors again, and it'll download a new one and be up-to-date. Either that, or just rename/copy it to another place in case I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I did this before when I had problems with mirrors updating.

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this is from using Easy urpmi:

 

unable to add medium, errors reported:

 

...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 1

problem reading synthesis file of medium "contrib"

 

This is from using the code line from easy urpmi:

http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/main/release/media_info/20090216-062133-synthesis.hdlist.cz

...retrieving failed: ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more)

http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/main/updates/media_info/20090219-132715-synthesis.hdlist.cz

http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list: media/contrib/release/media_info/20081003-221855-synthesis.hdlist.cz

...retrieving failed: ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more)

...retrieving failed: http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandriva/o...hesis.hdlist.cz (7more)

...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 1

problem reading synthesis file of medium "Contrib"

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1-delete all mirrors you downloaded

2- go to easy urpmi

3- dont use the command line

4- just press on the button of adding official mirrors

5- a download dialogue appear to you

6- chose to open it with add urpmi media then press ok

7- do the same thing to plf media

8- open configure you computer then chose configure media source

9- then mark the enable check box if it didnt update the media source press the edit button then chose wget from the downloader list box

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Try adding a specific mirror, open the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources, press Ctrl+A.

 

This is what I did, worked perfect, went through a Japanese mirror (I'm in Australia). Some 500mB of downloads, and I'm upto date.

 

So I think it was purely a bad mirror or server. Seems all fine now. Thanks all.

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